Asthma, rhinitis and other allergies

Asthma, rhinitis and other allergies

The frequency and the gravity of the allergies do not cease progressing. That it is of allergic rhinitis, food allergy or asthma, these affections block with the daily newspaper the social life and professional subjects concerned. The point on your knowledge.

1) There exist various types of rhinitis.
Truth.
There exist allergic rhinitides, but also rhinitides of infectious origins for example.

2) Certain allergies disappear spontaneously.
Truth.
But it is only the case of 10% of the allergies, in particular the food allergies of the child to egg and the cow’s milk.

3) The majority of asthmatic also suffer from allergic rhinitis.
Truth.
Eight asthmatic out of ten also suffers from allergic rhinitis. Conversely, 25% of the people reached of allergic rhinitis have also asthma. The two diseases can appear at the same time, but generally the rhinitis appears separately during several years before being associated with asthma.

4) One cannot diagnose an allergy before the 5 years age.
Forgery.
The diagnosis of allergy can be carried out at any age from what one calls an assessment allergologic.

5) A food allergy can predispose with asthma.
Truth.
A food allergy constitutes a factor predisposing with asthma.

6) Atmospheric pollution is a cause of allergy.
Forgery.
Atmospheric pollution and all the pollutants whose tobacco constitute factors worsening asthma and the other respiratory diseases. They are not on the other hand causes of allergy.

7) The allergy can be mortal.
Truth.
The shock anaphylactic can be fatal in the absence of immediate assumption of responsibility. In France, asthma kills 2.000 more people each year.

The allergic rhinitis is benign.
Forgery.
It predisposes with asthma and must thus be diagnosed and dealt with.

9) The rhinitis is known as intermittent or persistent.
Truth.
A rhinitis is known as intermittent when it appears during less than 3 weeks per annum or less than 3 days in the week.
It is known as persistent when it appears more than 4 weeks per annum and more than 4 days per week.

10) The food allergy appears as of the very first contact with food.
Forgery.
Except in the case of the crossed allergies, a food allergy appears after a phase of sensitizing, i.e. after having been several times in contact with food.

11) The allergic rhinitis multiplies by three the risk to develop asthma.
Truth.
It as should be also known as the rhinitis can worsen an asthma if it is not dealt with.

12) The trophallergenes are food likely to cause allergies.
Truth.
The principal trophallergenes are: the dry eggs, milk, groundnut, fruits, exotic fruits, fish, molluscs, shellfish, soya, spices, condiments and cereals.